stickup man
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9.1
- noun
- /ˈstɪkˌʌp mæn/
- NSFW
- We picked a neutral turf for the wedding since her mother and father thought their 17-year-old daughter, Loretta Geigerman, should not marry an Italian stickup man.
Examples
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What I'm not is a stickup man.
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"With a good education," Francis Kennedy said, "any burglar, stickup man, or any mugger will know enough to steal without hurting anyone."
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The stickup man threatened the bank teller with a gun during the robbery.
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After years in prison, the former stickup man shared his story of redemption.
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Witnesses identified the stickup man as someone they had seen in the neighborhood before.
Synonyms
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1.0
A person who steals from others by using or threatening to hurt them
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4.6
A person who steals from people or places, often using a weapon
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3.7
A person who attacks someone on the street to steal from them
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9.9
A person who steals from others, often using force or threats
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7.9
A man who threatens people with a weapon to steal money
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9.9
A person who steals from shops or buildings, often during a planned robbery
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9.9
A young person who uses threats or physical force to steal from people
A woman who robs shops or banks by threatening people with a gun
How Violent
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a man who commits an armed robbery' is directly derived from combining 'stickup' (an armed robbery) with 'man' (an adult male), forming a straightforward agentive compound. This noun+noun composition is productive and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Stickup man comes from the image of someone doing a stick up — holding a gun 'up' to force people to give money. So, a stickup man is a robber who threatens people with a weapon.